8 Jun
2001
8 Jun
'01
5:17 p.m.
[warning sub-operational] what's cool is that andre found that there is some natural `tiering' of ASes just according to (almost any topological) quantitative connectivity metrics http://www.caida.org/~broido/bgp/asoutdeg.html (math-heavy, no ASes identified, just illustrates that tiering has some sense manifested in real data, which i think is pretty cool) // .... To be sure, mathematics can be extended to any branch of knowledge, including economics, provided the concepts are so clearly defined as to permit accurate symbolic representation. That is only another way of saying that in some branches of discourse it is desirable to know what you are talking about. -- James R. Newman, World of Mathematics, 1956 //